Parallel Universe?

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I know there have been many discussions and fics surrounding this episode but there's a take I don't think I've seen yet.

We've looked at Deb and Arlene, and the idea of a female version of Rimmer, but has anyone ever seen anything addressing how our Lister and Rimmer, more or less unchanged, would have fared if they'd come from the female oriented society as portrayed in the episode?

Would Rimmer be less career-focused or more so because he'd be fighting sexism to get where he wants to be? Would he stop blaming his failings on his background and start blaming them on his gender?

And what about Lister? He was raised by a strong woman, so would his outlook really be that different? Would he have insecurities about women only wanting him for his huge penis because he's been brought up in a society that's taught him that he has no other real value? Would either, or both of them, feel strongly about man's rights or is it something they'd argue about? Would Rimmer criticise Lister's desire to meet someone and have babies for example? Or with the pressure to achieve taken away from him, would Lister actually be more motivated to be more than 'just a boy?'

Discuss...

Plain Forms

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Title: Plain Forms 1 (Pencils) and 2 (Stone)
Rating: none really, little bit shippy but not as much as I expected.
Notes: These are AU Red Dwarf fics which follow on from the fics I wrote 5 years ago (is it really that long!) but they're not stories as such this time, really just a collection of Drabbles that got out of control and away from me. Hopefully there's some sort of arc to them.
Disclaimer: I don't own Red Dwarf. Grant and Naylor do.

On AO3 here: Pencils and Stone